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Trac vs MantisBT: catalog facts
Trac	MantisBT
Free Free and open source under the BSD-3-Clause license.	Free Free and open source under the GPL; third-party hosting is available separately.
Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Cross-links between tickets, commits and wiki pages Works with Subversion and Git	Per-project role-based access control Customizable fields, notifications and workflow
Dated interface compared with newer forges No built-in code review or pull requests	Requires a PHP web server and database to set up Interface is dated next to newer trackers
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: BSD-3-Clause	License: GPL-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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